Hacker News: modshatereality

New comment by modshatereality in "Ada and C: differences as the language for system programming (1993) [pdf]"

modshatereality — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:09:47 +0000

cracks open the "REFERENCE MANUAL FOR THE Ada(r) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE"

looks like Ada83 specification has address clause though, which can effectively be used as a pointer when combined with System.Address / 'Address attribute. Also has access type, but you can't pass access type around all willy-nilly-like without unchecked_access (added in 95?).

C pointers are more flexible though, that much is true.

edit, almost forgot: the main downside of Ada < 95 is you don't get function pointers, or import/export pragma

New comment by modshatereality in "Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans"

modshatereality — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 02:15:02 +0000

For google, it's an open and shut case. Look up how they force numerous other companies to collude with them using their open handset aliance contract. They explicitly prohibit "forking android" which they consider creating a non-android OS with an android app loader as an "android fork".

New comment by modshatereality in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

modshatereality — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 06:03:58 +0000

Needs a rename to be taken seriously, It's vague (prohibits "unfriendliness"(what does that even mean?)), Not needed (gcc existed for over 30 years so far without one), allows anti-GPL companies (see latest RHEL upstream source portal incident) running the steering committee to decide what the vague language actually means without disclosing what financial interests are behind the decisions to shut down discussions.

New comment by modshatereality in "Reddit Doubles Down"

modshatereality — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:19:38 +0000

I'm confused by this whole thing, do the mods not realize how easily they can be replaced? Without any leadership or strategy moving forward this "movement" is doomed. Who decided the winning strategy was to basically quit? What are they hoping happens here, reddit opens up negotiations? LOL, you're handing them the keys to your subreddits DERP. Pretty much par for reddit mods though so why am i expecting some kind of cohesive plan? I'll see myself out now.

New comment by modshatereality in "Reddit Doubles Down"

modshatereality — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:00:49 +0000

reddit hides a ton of data unless you also run javascript.

New comment by modshatereality in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

modshatereality — Tue, 16 May 2023 19:22:56 +0000

just a billion dollar coincidence

New comment by modshatereality in "StarFive VisionFive 2 SBC Now Supports TianoCore EDK II (UEFI)"

modshatereality — Tue, 16 May 2023 01:20:13 +0000

That's going to be a hard NOPE for me dawg; UEFI is an atrocity, go look at the tianocore source if you want to think otherwise. Just because it replaces traditional boot loaders does not make it better or easier. Hopefully the chinese risc-v offerings are less subserviant to the wintel agenda than this.

New comment by modshatereality in "Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?"

modshatereality — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:50:34 +0000

>No,

Thank you, anyone claiming otherwise is fucking sheltered. They never bothered to opened up a regular shard other than seige perilous which had extra difficulties cranked up so nobody bothered, and other games filled the gap (until those too were banned).

New comment by modshatereality in "SpaceX's Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Have Started Falling from Space"

modshatereality — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:06:33 +0000

completely burned up reactor/battery or not, it's still radioactive waste.

New comment by modshatereality in "Linux is Making Apple Great Again"

modshatereality — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:22:33 +0000

Sequence of events for me: 1) stopped using the GOAT compiler GCC 2) killed X11 support 3) killed all 32bit support. 4) hit rock bottom.

New comment by modshatereality in "How to Save Android"

modshatereality — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:57:39 +0000

I don't think write once run everywhere applies to Android. Any native code has to be compiled and embedded into the apk, so you need to know at least which target architecture toolchains to install before you can start thinking about compiling it. Then we must consider any possible runtime differences between the various android distributions, "deprecated" API's at least. The only paths forward are to either accept google's full control over the various API's that it artificially imposes over it's linux base system, and may break app compatability, or use something more close to actual linux which claims to "never break userspace"

New comment by modshatereality in "FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns"

modshatereality — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:33:30 +0000

So attempt to prosecute them under your non-existing legal theory. Are they a criminal enterprise or not? If yes how is facebook/google/microsoft any different? Perhaps you should invest some effort in mandating better protections of user privacy, and securing the horrifyingly bad mobile permissions/capabilities schemes that allow such actors to exfiltrate sensitive information instead of allowing this to continue?? HMMM? Also we need laws prohibiting ISP's from blocking user ports so PEOPLE can actually compete with these trillion dollar conglomerates.

New comment by modshatereality in "FTC Creates an Office of Technology"

modshatereality — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 01:02:38 +0000

Musk is a choir boy compared to those who have been sculpting this grotesque firmware/software landscape that prevents you from asserting meaningful level of control(+autonomy) over your devices. Just another pawn on the board.

New comment by modshatereality in "Does Google need a new CEO?"

modshatereality — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:35:22 +0000

Google Maps recently just decided to stop working on my (admittedly highly customized) firefox build. It draws the grid background, but no maps.

New comment by modshatereality in "Reddit mods and scaling problems in social control"

modshatereality — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 02:19:49 +0000

I'll go back to reddit when the mods are banned. Free thought is a bug not a feature on new.reddit.com

New comment by modshatereality in "JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord"

modshatereality — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 22:39:07 +0000

An actual workable solution with quick easy numbers: each additional rentable/livable property address (not per-unit) beyond some base level (10?) should incur a 0.1% multiplier on overall tax burden of all lands, 10 properties = 1.0 multiplier, 15 properties = 1.5% multiplier, and so on... this new extra mega-lord tax burden must apply to all properties, and span all other corporations owned by the entity.

New comment by modshatereality in "Antitrust 101: Tacit Collusion"

modshatereality — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:39:18 +0000

>that‘s how competition is supposed to work, everyone trying to give the better price!

Maybe if the price is being lowered, but raising prices based solely on external signal is only "better" for the companies coordinating the price increase.

New comment by modshatereality in "Shadowbanning Is Real"

modshatereality — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:15:53 +0000

using a site the way it was designed to be used is vandalism? HEH. just banning the account and providing a logical reason for the ban would be effective as well. this gives mods the ability to just ban whoever they want and provide no reasoning. if i were to speculate on the real reason why it's a common tactic now i'd say probably to limit any potential legal liability (edit: from wrongful account termination, but also it helps contain the damage if user doesn't tell others they were banned without any sound justification. also the site can say they never banned the user only hobbled their account).

it harms the site as well, not only it's users. just look at whats happened to the ghost town formerly known as reddit.

New comment by modshatereality in "Shadowbanning Is Real"

modshatereality — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:45:24 +0000

Uhm, it's pretty obvious if you've been shadowbanned. maybe for some unknown percentage it works out that way, the rest become even more disgruntled and/or radicalized against "big tech", "the media", et al for conducting psychological warfare.

New comment by modshatereality in "Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative"

modshatereality — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:57:41 +0000

the neo puritans throwing around dehumanizing slurs like "troll" dozens of times a day think they have the moral high ground? fucking hilarious.